Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
The last weekly PlayStation Plus update of July 2013 is upon us, revealing that subscribers to Sony's premium service will find Dokuro for the PS Vita added to the free Instant Game Collection when the PSN updates tomorrow afternoon.
Codemasters announced this week that the latest version of their Formula One racer, F1 2013, will launch for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on October 8th in North America, and on October 4th across Europe.
Nintendo of America recently filed for a brand new Eternal Darkness trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which has led to speculation that the publisher might be looking to do something new with the classic GameCube title.
Earlier this week several Ouya developers publicly revealed how much money they had made from certain titles released on the new Android-powered console. Based entirely on what was announced, the results for the system's first 30 days on sale were pretty dismal. Most developers reporting revenue ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to a few thousand, with the console's top selling game, TowerFall, hitting $21,000 in revenue at $14.99 per download.
Microsoft may be on the verge of detailing a plan to transform any given retail Xbox One console into a development debug unit, but a new report is claiming that Sony is already well ahead of the curve when it comes to saturating the indie scene with easy to obtain PlayStation 4 dev kits.
Activision Blizzard has announced an agreement with Vivendi to buy the majority of the mass media company's stake in the video game publisher for a total of $8.2 billion.
As promised, Precursor Games officially launched their second Kickstarter campaign for Shadow of the Eternals today. In doing so the group of former Silicon Knights employees have unquestionably proved that it will take a whole lot more than Denis Dyack's baggage, two failed crowdfunding efforts, and a few child pornography charges to stop the studio from potentially infringing on Nintendo's Eternal Darkness sanity meter gameplay trademark.
As part of a press release detailing Activision's upcoming Wii U lineup, the publisher has confirmed that Call of Duty: Ghosts is scheduled for release on November 5th for Nintendo's latest video game console.
Earlier today Game Informer reported that Microsoft was preparing to announce a reversal of their policy against letting independent developers self-publish on the Xbox One. The platform holder has now confirmed part of the report, revealing the second major policy shift for the upcoming next-gen console.
The Electronic Arts' servers tasked with handling SimCity's always-online DRM requirements are running smoothly now, but this was not always the case. After the title launched back in March of this year, it took almost two weeks before the publisher was able to beef up their server count to a level that could properly handle the number of players who purchased the game. It was a disaster on every conceivable level, and it (justifiably) damaged EA's already low reputation.